Navigatingrelationships

When we think of domestic violence with usually assume the victim is female. According to the  CDC , one in seven adult men in the U.S. will become a victim of domestic violence by an intimate partner during his lifetime. That’s upwards of three million or more male domestic violence victims every year, or one man in America abused by an intimate or domestic partner every 37.8 seconds. Why does domestic violence  against men go unreported? Some men are ashamed to admit that they are victims and in other cases some feel victimized again when their is a lack of police response. From the huffington Post:  According to one recent study, 83 percent of victims who had an attorney help them file a restraining order successfully obtained one, compared to approximately 30 percent of victims who went it alone. Men are considered weak A man is not supposed to be a controlled physically by a woman. This stigma often prevents them from not only leaving an abu

Sweet life long long time ago. You and I taking on the world, I was you boy and you were my girl. We were gonna do it all. We had such big plans graduated from college joined in matrimony walking off hand in hand. Sweet life. Such a sweet life long ,long time ago. La-la-la We were so in love don’t cha know. Nothing could stop us. We were invincible. Oh but how were we to know our road was paved with potholes. We hit a few along the way ,mended our wounds and moved on to another day. Sunshine blue skies gave way to darken days. It seems the stars were misaligned and we began to go separate ways. Distance can prove fatal to any relationship. We grew miles apart though we were together everyday. Sweet life, we had a sweet life long, long time ago. I wish we could go back and take this pain away. Don’t you want to go? Go back to yesterday when all we needed was each other and love guided our way. Let’s go back baby and find what we once had. I know we